Pakistan had informed the US about Osama presence but didn't want to be associated with his capture fearing an Al Qaeda back lash,Why do you think that they still allow CIA to operate from Pakistan.Its like the Pakistani position on drone.We are Ok with it but well ridicule it public ally.If they really wanted drones attacks to stop all they have to do is arm the militants with the weapons to shoot them down.Pakistan military has always been buddies with the CIA.Since the times of cold war when Americans flew spy planes over Russia from there bases...

4:21 pm February 1, 2013

Haleem wrote:

I think the main reason Most Pakistani dislike it is that the director filmed it in poor cities and location of India which is total contradictory to natural beauty of Peshawar city.(main location in film) and also Abbottabad one of beautiful hill station in Ind-Pak countries.

9:44 pm February 1, 2013

Anonymous wrote:

If Pakistanis feel humiliated, perhaps they should stop doing things that brings such humiliation! A good start will be to arrest all known terrorists and extradite them for free and fair trials in civilized world.
This will help Pakistan too.

2:37 am February 2, 2013

JMFulton, Jr wrote:

I am stunned Pakistan isn't more "humiliated" that UBL and his large retinue was able to so easily live in Abbotabad for about fives years, and a mountain village before that.
What does this say?
Secondarily, the film more showed Pakistan in various street scenes. It did to reveal much about ISI or the government's "anti-terrorism" measures.
Americans are right to not trust Pakistanis. Pakistanis don't trust Pakistanis.
The film rather left Pakistan quite alone. It did not delve into the US-Pakistani relations which are so routinely marked by Pakistan's sordid, duplicitious ways.
Finally, congratulations on the cricket successes.

2:47 am February 2, 2013

Christopher Hogan wrote:

While I understand Pakistan's offense at having their soveirgnty violated, it's not fair to label their military as "incompetent". Of course they didn't know we were coming-we used stealth helicopters and sophisticated night-vision technology that they don't have. As for Bin Laden eluding them all these years-the man was GOOD at that folks. He probably could have hide in America somewhere without being discovered for a while.

4:51 am February 2, 2013

Blackparrot wrote:

"...viewers’ response to the film would depend “on the individual’s level of hurt.”"

Let us agree that this comment says it all! Imagine, a nation of "hurt" children, half of whom riot in the streets at the slightest "provocation," and who substitute fanatical religious beliefs for a genuine attempt to live in harmony with God's will. Further, imagine a nation like this in possession of nuclear weapons! That's Pakistan.

And then reflect on our continued "friendship" with these folks! And what India must think of it. And how dangerous the border between India and Pakistan is, especially with China and Iran as part of their neighborhood. And let us not forget Afghanistan and the Taliban! Makes the Middle East look like the Garden of Eden by comparison.

Were the US to hand Pakistan to China or Russia, what would happen? Would Pakistan become another North Korea? Isn't that where it's heading anyway? And when did North Korea ever sell massive amounts of nuclear technology to terror-states, the way Pakistan has?

In fact, Pakistan is a tribal, Islamic nightmare, in a world of many tribal, Islamic nightmares. Surely, this is the one where the "unwinding" should begin---the gradual diminution of Islam's expansionist dreams. If they want to remain tribal and Islamic, that's their call. But ours must be to contain them, via reducing their ability to project military power.

Sadly, Israel blew the first of the wars that will accomplish this. Had the Jewish state done what it promised in 2006, i.e., to destroy Hezbollah, the world today would be far less dangerous than it is.

Now, we have to do it ourselves, with Hezbollah more powerful and Iran closer to nuclear weapons than either was seven years ago. The West must begin to see the Islamic world as a collective enemy, not as a partner. We want friendship, they want what we have, including our land, our technology, our wealth. That's what Islam is based on---conquest as a means of doing what Islamic culture cannot and will not ever do on its own. What Islam has is oil. They use it to buy what they need. But that's all they have. We buy nothing else from the Islamic states, because they have nothing else to sell.

In all of this, India must play a part, since it shares a border and mutual enmity with the only nuclear Islamic state, and has a huge internal Moslem population to boot. If this problem cannot be solved in South Asia, where can it be solved, and by whom?

Whether or not Islam can morph into a modern religion is an open question. Is its current violent profile caused by the fact, that it retains its tribal Arab character, which is incompatible with the kind of world 99% of the world's people want? Or is there something about the religion, per se, that causes the violence and hatred? We won't know until we force some changes on these folks. Then we'll see whether "moderate Islam" is a possibility, or a politically-correct fantasy

But something tells me that the tribalism is actually maintained and nourished by Islam, and that something huge and revolutionary must occur re: that religion, before Islam can become a normative, acceptable member of the world's religions. At present, it is anything but. It is an outlier, something that over the last ten years has literally leapt out of the pages of National Geographic Magazine and the History Channel, and moved into our Western cities and suburbs! And in our arrogance, we imagine that "Once Moslems see how wonderful the West is, they'll forget all their former hatreds and violence." Sure they will.

Of course I could be wrong. Maybe Moslems around the world are itching to change, to walk away from the imams and mullahs who egg them on to hate and hurt. If this turns out to be the case, if in a few years we get a clear signal that "all that is over" and "now we're ready to join you," that would be one of the great events of the postwar world---the emergence of Moslem peoples as partners in modernity. We'll see.

9:17 pm February 2, 2013

Shivananda Shahapur wrote:

I don't see why people call condemn torturing those terrorists. You really think they would have revealed the information by talking to them with your hand on their shoulders? Get real. These are not normal individuals but sinister terrorists who kill thousands of innocent people. There is no point in being sympathetic to them.

11:35 am February 3, 2013

India wrote:

It is time to surround Pakistan.

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